republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/acr-61.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to organ and tissue donation."
description: "This measure would proclaim the month of April 2021 as Donate Life/DMV Partnership Month in California, and would encourage all Californians to register with the Donate Life California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "ACR 61"
citation: "California ACR 61 (20212022)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["Donate Life/DMV Partnership Month."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Davies"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-25"
last_action: "2021-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f78071eb-ca43-45f0-b9bf-26f63a034fa8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR61"
source_hash: "a623d7b47ff3af782f63207c53ce58a05b66284e50ff3ccffc1925ff8fbb2363"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California ACR 61 (20212022) — Relative to organ and tissue donation.

This measure would proclaim the month of April 2021 as Donate Life/DMV Partnership Month in California, and would encourage all Californians to register with the Donate Life California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **03/25/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR61&version=20210ACR6199INT)
2. **05/07/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR61&version=20210ACR6197CHP)
3. **ACR61** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR61)
4. **05/04/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR61&version=20210ACR6198ENR)

## Votes

- Be adopted. To third reading. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading ACR61 — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Davies — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Akilah Weber — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Bigelow — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Bloom — coauthor (person)
- Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Burke — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Chau — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Chiu — coauthor (person)
- Choi — coauthor (person)
- Cooley — coauthor (person)
- Cooper — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Cunningham — coauthor (person)
- Daly — coauthor (person)
- Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Frazier — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Gray — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Kiley — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
- Lorena Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- Medina — coauthor (person)
- Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Nazarian — coauthor (person)
- Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- O'Donnell — coauthor (person)
- Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Quirk — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Rendon — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Salas — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Seyarto — coauthor (person)
- Smith — coauthor (person)
- Stone — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Valladares — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Voepel — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-03-25** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2021-03-26** From printer.
- **2021-04-08** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-15** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 15). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2021-04-19** Coauthors revised.
- **2021-04-19** Adopted and to Senate. (Page 1070.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2021-04-20** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2021-04-28** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2021-05-03** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2021-05-03** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1009.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2021-05-03** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2021-05-07** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 11 a.m.
- **2021-05-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 32, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f78071eb-ca43-45f0-b9bf-26f63a034fa8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).